A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

By Kate Khavari,

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The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure.

Debut author Kate Khavari deftly entwines a pulse-pounding mystery with the struggles of a woman in a male-dominated field in 1923 London.

Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University…

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1 author picked A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In the cozy mystery by Kate Khavari, Saffron is the main character who follows in her father’s footsteps as a botanist.

She’s in search of a Chilean species commonly known as Devil’s Trumpet, which has a beautiful trumpet-shaped flower that hides its poisonous use. 

This story is a ‘will-they-or-won’t they’ romance between Saffron and Alexander, a biology researcher, but what’s romance without a little plant poison in the mix?

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